What is the best postpartum exercise?
The most important postpartum exercise that you should do is the kegel exercise. Since your pelvic floor muscles have been over-stretched during birth, kegel exercises are essential to regain muscle tone to avoid incontinence and prolapse, or falling, of your uterus and other internal organs. You can also begin light abdominal exercises, taking care to modify them if you have diastasis recti. Generally, at four or six weeks, your doctor will give his or her approval to begin more strenuous postpartum exercise. At this point, you can do brisk walking, swimming, bicycling or other exercises. The Perfect Postnatal Workout contains a short workout that you can do in your first month and two more vigorous 15-minute workouts that you can do with your baby after your doctor has given you approval for postpartum exercise. These are sculpting workouts-they will increase your metabolism and give you a more toned physique, helping you to burn fat faster.
